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tire ogranization, plans to
spread the work to other
parts of the city and to
build new schools in the
North and West Ends of
Detroit, where new Jewish
centers are being created.
The faculty of the United
Hebrew Schools includes
Bernard Isaacs, super-
intendent.
These fascinating historical
recollections bring to light
again the noteworthy con-
tributions to educational pro-
gramming by the late Ber-
nard Isaacs.
It is regrettable that other
school systems, the Yiddish
and the secular, were not in-
cluded in the earliest repor-
ting. The importance retain-
ed here is the immensity of
the Wilkins Street Talmud
Torah, its growth from a stu-
dent body of 600 to 700 and
the challenge to our time.
Therefore the special in-
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testing of our schools 70 years
later.
This single factor in the
communal Federation studies
lends the project significance
to be applauded.
With three generations
separating the maximum
devotions from the present
minimalism ; critical judge-
ments are unwise. There is
undoubted recognition of han-
dicaps and shortcomings. The
day school has rescued the
drastic reduction of the after-
noon school to the two day
minimum. The neighborhood
changes and area migrations
have practically eliminated
evening classes. The most
serious difficulty is the secur-
ing of competent teachers
who will dedicate themselves
to careers in Jewish schools.
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ish Appeal-Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies of
New York, an age-old Jew-
ish disorder, Tay-Sachs
disease, may soon be
brought under control.
A testing program to de-
tect the Tay-Sachs gene has
gained acceptance in the
past three years among
Chasidic Jews in the New
York area, and there has
been a marked decrease in
the number of children born
with the disease.
The key to the reduction is
the dramatic rise in the
number of Chasidic high-
school students who take the
blood tests and the coopera-
tion by Chasidic mat-
chmakers in making sure
carriers of the gene, once de-
tected, do not marry.
Tay-Sachs disease is a
genetic disorder, common to
those of Central or Eastern
European Jewish descent,
which affects the central
nervous system of infants,
causing paralysis, blindness
and eventually death, usual-
ly before age 5.
Babies born with the
disease must inherit the
gene from both parents; if
only one parent carries the
gene, there is practically no
danger of a child being born
with the disease.
Tay-Sachs can be detected
by the 16th week of
pregnancy through am-
niocentesis, and the mother
can have the fetus aborted if
she wishes.
Chasidic Jews are
therefore particularly
vulnerable, because re-
ligious practice forbids them
from using birth control or
having abortions. The only
preventive measure is to
make sure that two carriers
of the gene do not marry.
With this in mind, Dor
Yeshorim, a Brooklyn-based
A testing program
to detect the Tay-
Sachs gene has
gained acceptance
in the past three
years among
Chasidic Jews.
organization active in Tay-
Sachs prevention, visits high
schools collecting blood
samples and sending them to
Kingsbrook for tests. All
testing is completely con-
fidential.
With the results entered
into the matchmakers' corn-
puter systems, the shad-
chans simply check for the
Tay-Sachs gene before rec-
ommending a match. If two
potential partners have the
gene, the match is never
made.